slip
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That’s Fennell’s challenge: When something is hard, and when the pain is gratuitous, don’t turn the other cheek, don’t let the heart-wrenching horror slip away.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
Your mother may rightly feel that, based on experience, people are waiting for her to slip up.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
But All-Pro safety Derwin James Jr. let the mask slip a bit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
Before filing arrest warrants, Johnson likes to contact alleged fraudsters to see if panic will make them slip up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
The plaster head remains in Boston, but Phineas and his tamping iron soon slip out of town.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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GM has slipped from 17.4 percent market share in 2025 to 16.7 percent in the first nine months of this year.
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
They tried to rid themselves of Paxton, but he somehow slipped away.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
"The driver said his foot slipped when he went to get out the car and the car came straight in," Donna said.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Some days I stand on concrete for eight hours, and last winter I slipped on ice in the parking lot and was out for two weeks.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
I flashed her a smile as she slipped into a seat at a vacant table at the back of the pavilion.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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Dairy prices were little changed in September, slipping 0.1% and remaining more than 19% below their year-earlier level.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Sensitivity measures how successfully the system identifies manipulated videos, making the particularly high sensitivity important for a screening tool designed to keep fake content from slipping through.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
Nvidia stock is slipping after OpenAI says it would halt training of its latest AI models.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
Kane's penalty miss just after the break was a turning point, hitting the bar after slipping and touching the ball twice, before England once again paid the price for errors.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
A deep whooshing sort of sigh, like some important part of her is slipping out of her mouth and into the cold night air.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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Bertha having slipt out of the room, Marie escaped the tender grasp of Dieterick's hand, and profited by this opportunity to turn the subject of the conversation.
From The Banished A Swabian Historical Tale. In Three Volumes. by Wilhelm Hauff
Thro' an awaiting soul 'tis slipt And lo, words spring that breathe immortal.
From Song-Surf by Cale Young Rice
When we slipt, you would lift us up, and establish us by your counsels; we should march with sure steps in the rough paths of virtue.
From Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix?d a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Pierre Bayle
So I quickly arose And slipt into my clothes, To fulfil this said spectre's command.
From The Anglican Friar and the Fish which he Took by Hook and by Crook by A. Novice
Then he had used persuasion and cajolery, until at last the boy had slipt into the pool, and in a week was swimming with the best of them.
From Masterman and Son by W. J. (William James) Dawson
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